All Walter Benjamin Quotes
- The work of memory collapses time. Collapse
- All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. All
- It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… Creation
- What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual. Been
- Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;… Architectural
- As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. Beggar
- The distracted person, too, can form habits. Distracted
- We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to… Always Privately
- Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way… Acquired
- The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on… Aid
- In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in… Cause
- No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Beholder
- The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it… Flash
- The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Beauty
- All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. All
- Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. Bourgeois
- Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not… Acquiring